[californiadisasters] Old Shasta Burns To The Ground 100 Years Ago

From the pages of the Redding Record-Searchlight on this date in 1912:

"For half an hour one afternoon this old mining town was the liveliest it had been in half a century.
With half a dozen fires burning at the same time in different parts of the old town, Old Shasta was given a shake-up long to be remembered.
It was all due to the high tension power wire of the Northern California Power Co. getting crossed with a light wire somewhere between here and Keswick."

Source: http://www.redding.com/news/2012/nov/21/today-in-history-nov-22-2012/

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